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171. Id.
172. Id.
173. 25 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. § 1509.
174. Id.
175. Id.
176. See Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 16.091.
177. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 16.0921.
178. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 16.092
179. Id.
180. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 16.0921.
181. Id.
182. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 16.093.
183. Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-429.
184. See id.
185. Id.
186. Pam Fessler, “Tea Party Spawns New Effort Against Voter Fraud,”
supra note 13.
187. Id.
188. Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-429.
189. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-9-201.
190. Id.
191. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-9-202.
192. Id.
193. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-9-203.
194. See Id. For example, if a person is challenged as being ineligible to vote
because of his or her citizenship, an election judge shall ask: “Are you a
citizen of the United States?”
195. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-9-201(1)(b). A watcher must be designated “by a
political party chairperson on behalf of the political party, by a party
candidate at a primary election, by an unaffiliated candidate at a
general, congressional vacancy, or nonpartisan election, or by a person
designated by either the opponents or the proponents in the case of a
ballot issue or ballot question.”
196. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-1-104(51).
197. Id.
198. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-503; see also 8 CCR 1505-1, Rule 8.6
199. 8 CCR 1505-1, Rule 8.4.
200. 8 CCR 1505-1, Rule 8.1.2.
201. 8 CCR 1505-1, Rule 8.2.
202. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-7-108(3).
203. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-7-108(3).
204. 8 CCR 1505-1, Rule 8.8.1.
205. 8 CCR 1505-1, Rule 8.8.
206. 8 CCR 1505-1, Rule 8.15.
207. Fla. Stat. § 101.111.
208. Id.
209. See Fla. Stat. §§ 104.011; 775.082; 775.083; 775.084.
210. See Fla. Stat. § 101.048; Grounds for challenging an elector include
age, citizenship, legal residence in the appropriate state and county, and
the voter’s registration status.
211. Fla. Stat. § 101.131.
212. Id.
213. Id.
214. Id.
215. Id.
216. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.105.
217. Id.
218. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.429; 115.133.
219. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.429(3).
220. Although there is some ambiguity in the statute, an affidavit would
appear to satisfy the requirement that the voter must establish his or
her identity and qualifications before being permitted to vote. Mo. Rev.
Stat. § 115.429(3), (5).
221. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.429(5).
222. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.430.
223. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.105.
224. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.105.2.
225. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.107(1), (4).
226. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.107(2).
227. Id.
228. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.107(3).
229. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.111.
230. Id.
231. Ian Urbina, “As Homes Are Lost, Fears That Votes Will Be, Too,”
56 • Bullies at the Ballot Box | September 2012
N.Y. Times, Sept. 24, 2008, available at http://www.nytimes.
com/2008/09/25/us/politics/25voting.html.
232. Id.
233. H.B. 192 (Mo. 2009) (amending Mo. Rev. Stat. s 115 to add s
115.192).
234. H.B. 192 (Mo. 2009) (amending Mo. Rev. Stat. s 115 to add s
115.192).
235. H.B. 1952 (Mo. 2010) (amending Mo. Rev. Stat. s 115.142) s A.
236. Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 293.547; 293.303.
237. Id. Though challenges made on Election Day may be made orally, the
challenger must then make a written affirmation.
238. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 293.303(2).
239. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 293.303.
240. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 293.303(7).
241. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 293.303(8).
242. Id.
243. Nev. Rev. Stat. 293.304.
244. Id.
245. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 293.274(1).
246. Id. at (2).
247. “‘Advocate’ includes, without limitation, speaking, displaying or
disseminating written material and wearing identifying clothing,
buttons or other paraphernalia.” Nev. Admin. Code § 293.245(7).
248. Nev. Admin. Code § 293.245 at (2).
249. Id. at (5).
250. Id. at (6).
251. N.H. Rev. Stat. §659:27.
252. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 666:5.
253. “The state committee of a political party may appoint a person to
act as challenger of voters at any polling place in the state at a state
election. A city or town committee of such a party may appoint a
person to act as such challenger at any polling place in such city
or town at a town election, business meeting, or city election.”
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 666:4.
254. N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 666:4; 666:5.
255. Id.
256. Id.
257. N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 659:27; 659:27-a.
258. N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 659:27. Grounds for challenging a voter include
any of the following: the person seeking to vote is not the individual
whose name he or she has given; the person has already voted in
the election; the person seeking to vote is disqualified for violating
the elections laws; the person is under 18 years of age; the person
seeking to vote is not a United States Citizen; the person seeking is not
domiciled in the town or ward where he or she is seeking to vote; the
person seeking to vote does not reside at his or her listed address; the
person is an incarcerated convicted felon who is currently sentenced
to incarceration; the person is not a declared member of the party he
or she claims to be affiliated with (in a primary only); the person is
ineligible to vote because of a state or federal law or constitutional
provision. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 659:27-a. It is noteworthy that a letter or
postal card mailed by returnable mail and returned by the U.S. Postal
office because the person purportedly no longer lives at that address is
not admissible evidence in a challenge. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-88.
259. Id; N.H. Rev. Stat. § 659:30; N.H. Rev. Stat. § 659:31.
260. N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 659:27.
261. Id.
262. See New Hampshire Department of State, “New Hampshire Election
Procedure Manual: 2010-2011,” available at http://sos.nh.gov/
WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=12408.
263. Id.
264. N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 659:37.
265. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-87.
266. N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 163-85; 163-87.
267. N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 163-90.1.
268. N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 163-85.
269. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-88.
270. Id.
271. Id.
272. Id.
273. Id.
274. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-90.1.
275. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-88.
276. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-45.